what is the authoritarian personality?
a type of personality where the individual is completely obedient to a authority figure.
who came up with the authoritarian personality?
Adorno et al
what type of childhood would people with AP have?
strict and harsh upbringings
who supported the dispositional explanations in 1966?
elms and milgrams
what did elms and milgram do?
they took 20 obedient pp from milgrams experiment and got them to complete the f scale and the mmpi scale. they also looked at their relationships with their parents.
what did elm and milgram find?
they found that the obedient pp showed more signs of authoritarianism.